By Jack Carley Staff Writer Environmentally conscious Carrboro took one more step toward sustainability when Carrboro Solar Works installed a photovoltaic solar array at the Pacifica Cohousing development. The array, resting atop the development’s shared Common House, generates about 5,000 watts of electricity monthly while batteries store power in the event of a blackout.
Category: Community
Land & Table Brief: Gardeners needed
The Orange County Partnership for Young Children is recruiting families to help nurture community gardens in town. The first garden is located at Martin Luther King Jr. Park. The second will start at Carrboro Elementary in spring of 2008. Applications are available on the website, www.orangesmartstart.org. The Carrboro Growing Healthy Kids project aims to help…
Land & Table Brief: Solar tour
The Chatham and Orange County Solar and Green Homes Tour is Saturday, October 6. The tour features nine sites, including Pacifica, a sustainable neighborhood. Technologies include energy efficiency, passive and active solar, co-housing, high-efficiency HVAC and water heating systems, Energy Star and System Vision certifications and more. The kickoff event for this tour will be…
Land & Table Brief: River watch
The Haw River Watch Project will host a stream ecology and monitoring event on the Haw River at the Haw River State Park in Browns Summit on Sunday. River Watch Project coordinator Cynthia Crossen will teach participants how to measure a stream’s water quality by identifying the number and type of water bugs and doing…
A late-summer flower for the shade
While our Carrboro Citizen editor keeps us informed of the political wilderness within the Legislative Building on the north side of Jones Street, there is a natural wilderness in action across the street, beside the Museum of Natural Sciences. On the legislative side, weekly irrigation and mowing maintain emerald-green short turf accented here and there…
Music Festival Sunday
 By Susan Dickson Staff Writer To a first-time attendee, the Carrboro Music Festival might seem a bit overwhelming. Best not to try to attend everything. Because with more than 150 shows on 22 stages, there’s way too much fun to be had. As of Wednesday afternoon, the weather forecast for Sunday is sunny, with…
Music Festival Schedule
Archer Graphics 1 – Storm Front: Carolina Blues 2 – Killer Filler: Surfy, instrumental 3 – Lithium Dove: alt-Rock 4 – Ronnie Parks & Tim Forbes: Original Carolina Rock 5 – Off The Road Band: Americana 6 – The Lids: 50’s – 70’s Rock
Musical Memory: Stories of past festivals
Firehouse rock The morning of Fete ’99 dawned seriously misty. Our foul-weather plan consisted of crossed fingers and a few extra tarps. The fete committee, chaired that year by Berkeley Grimball, met early and decided to forge ahead. Berkeley was pacing at home when Carrboro Fire Chief Rodney Murray’s voice came in on the walkie-talkie….
A short history of the festival
Gerry Williams Festival Coordinator The Music Festival began in 1998, when then-Carrboro resident Elizabeth Boisson and the Carrboro Arts Committee suggested to the mayor and board of aldermen that we join the handful of American communites that celebrate the summer solstice through participation in the International Fete de la Musique. After deciding to go ahead…
Car show this weekend to benefit historic Hillsborough speedway
By Emily Buehler Correspondent If you’ve never been walking on the Occoneechee-Orange Speedway, you’re not just missing out on a peaceful, shady walk through a quiet pine forest. You’re also missing a chunk of local history: The flat main trail, part of the original race track, passes by the concrete grandstand, where you can almost…
Species named after UNC Herbarium botanist
UNC News Services A new, rare species of Boneset or Thoroughwort (genus Eupatorium) has been discovered growing in Carolina bays and similar wet depressions in North and South Carolina. The distinctive Bay Boneset (Eupatorium paludicola) was described by botanist Richard LeBlond, an associate with the University of North Carolina Herbarium, in the botanical journal Rhodora…
CPT benifit
Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT) will hold a Burrito Bash on October 2nd in partnership with the General Store Café in Pittsboro. Tickets will be sold at the door that evening. Tickets will be $15 and entitle the bearer to one of General Store Café’s burritos with chips and salsa. William Burton will be providing music…
Brief: Photo exhibit
Photographers Juan Pons and Mike Dunn will share their passion for nature with visitors to the Nature Art Gallery at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh from Oct. 5th through Nov. 25th in an exhibit: “Glimpses of Nature.†Nature-lovers can meet the photographers at a reception on Oct. 5th from 6 p.m.-9 p.m….
Brief: Garden workday
Gardeners are invited to join the Carrboro Community Garden Coalition for Saturday workdays in the community garden at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1120 Hillsborough Rd., Carrboro. Learn, share or just enjoy the garden. Free. All welcome. Every Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Contact ccgc@riseup.net, 647-9633, or visit www.carrborogarden.org for more details.
Brief: Fearrington House recognized
Gourmet Magazine has recognized The Fearrington House as one of America’s Best Farm-To-Table Restaurants for Romantic and Special Occasion dining. The feature, in Gourmet’s October issue, highlights restaurants, hotels, and inns whose chefs are taking locally sourced ingredients in new and exciting directions.